Okay -- so it took a while to get this posted, but I have been very busy getting ready to upload a complete revamp of my website along with preparing new product for the TNNA show in January. My New Year's resolution is to post to one of my three different blogs each day.
Notice how the flap on the purse isn't wavy along the bottom edge. Although I did block it slightly, it is based on the method decribed below. Now if you want to know how the purse holds it shape, you will just have get the pattern -- which will be availabe immediately after TNNA (middle of January)!!